Sunday, 24 April 2016

24th April: Anthony Trollope

This date in 1815 saw the birth of the writer (and inventor of the pillar box) Anthony Trollope. Here are ten things he said:

  1. And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
  2. A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
  3. No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
  4. Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you’ll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.
  5. Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
  6. Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
  7. This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
  8. Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
  9. A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
  10. What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?

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